Contour Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
— Jean Aitchison
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of…
— Bernard Berenson
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
— Jack Kerouac
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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a…
— Gianfranco Ferre
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I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour
— Barbara Hepworth
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Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without…
— Germaine Greer
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The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but…
— Ariel Durant
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The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
— Eugene Delacroix
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Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others…
— Ida Rolf
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The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
— Democritus
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The contour eludes me.
— Paul Cezanne
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those…
— Eugene Delacroix
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really…
— Olivia Wilde
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Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its…
— Freya Stark
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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the…
— Colum McCann
Who Wrote These Contour Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Contour Quotes as follows: